A Cumberland Vendetta

In the blood-soaked hollows of the Cumberland Mountains, two families have been killing each other for so long that no one remembers how it started. Rome Stetson knows only that the Lewallens are his enemies, that his mother weeps for vengeance, and that the mountains themselves seem to breed nothing but hate. Then he meets Martha Lewallen. What follows is a love story forged in the crucible of violence, where every stolen glance risks death and every kindness could betray a family. Fox renders the Appalachian wilderness with raw beauty and darker truth: a world where a man's worth is measured in the strength of his rifle and the depth of his grudges, where children are born into wars they never chose. This is the feud novel that predates Fox's more famous works, and in many ways, it remains his most visceral and least sentimental.